Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > I like Adaptec for price/performance, and good Linux overall > compatibility (including CentOS). Just don't order those "fell off the > truck" Taiwan specials that are clearly Adaptec chipsets, but have > actually had the numbers filed off. Adaptec is proud of their "HostRAID" technology that has a spotty record with Linux compatibility. The manufacturer's descriptions have led people to mistakenly think they bought a hardware RAID card when in fact the RAID functions are implemented in software. This approach has been dubbed "fake RAID". It's not clear to me that this is a win compared to using the kernel's software RAID features. http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/archives/158 tells the sorry tale of a company whose products used to be a safe bet. The comments tend to confirm the sad state of affairs. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fakeraid#Firmware.2Fdriver-based_RAID covers fake RAID. -- Charles Polisher